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Sydney bassist Jonathan Zwartz follows up last years release 'The Sea' with another strong ensemble release of original music.Plenty of other new releases including Bad Plus drummer Dave King leading a surprisingly subtle trio.

Trumpeter Donald Byrd died recently and today you'll hear him in great form in a fine 1961 Blue Note session with a young Herbie Hancock plus Cannonball Adderly in Chicago, Lionel Hampton at Newport and Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.

The words of Lewis Carroll and other poets inspire Kenny Wheeler and his new collaboration with Norma Winstone and others,Chet Baker inspires Luciana Souza and the Ted Vining Trio gets inspired by Coltrane back in 1998.

Two marvellous live recordings from 1960 featuring the Miles Davis Quintet and Stan Getz's Quartet , another fine live recording from 1968 of the Gary Burton Quartet with Larry Coryell plus more recent new releases.

Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers in their prime live in Japan 1961. Chicago trumpeter Mugsy Spanier and one of his classics recorded with his Ragtime Band, Ben Webster and Joe Zawinul together and the Buck Clayton and Earl Hines co-led all star band from 1967 recorded in Paris. Bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi from his mid 80's collaboration with Charlie Haden and Sydney guitarist Jess Green goes tinkly tinkly on her new release.